Head, Workforce Development

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Head, Workforce Development

WAYS YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE

Strategy, program design, and delivery

• Identify opportunities to create impact through education and skills interventions aligned with the Kenya Country Roadmap.

• Develop and execute a programmatic approach that creates synergy, strategic coherence, and alignment across education, skilling, school-to-work transitions, and the preparation and placement of young people in work.

• Set workforce development goals and targets—including internships, fellowships, job placement, entrepreneurship, and further education—and monitor and report on progress, results, and learning.

• Integrate education and skills initiatives with transitions, youth engagement and inclusion, youth-led grassroots solutions, access to finance, and digital enablement.

• Provide technical leadership to ensure country programs and partnerships respond to the current and emerging needs of young people, especially young women.

• Prepare and present regular reports to senior leadership on key performance indicators, program effectiveness, learning, and areas for improvement.

Youth engagement and inclusion

• Establish trusted and accessible forums that enable young people’s networks and groups, especially young women, to contribute to program design and implementation.

• Support Country Programs colleagues during partnership co-creation to ensure a strong youth lens across education and skilling, access to finance, and digital enablement.

• Support implementing partners to build effective youth engagement and outreach mechanisms that keep young women and men at the centre of their approach.

• Drive inclusion by ensuring entrepreneurship and transition programs address the specific constraints faced by young people with different needs.

• Facilitate innovation and locally led solutions that engage young people and unlock opportunities in emerging economic sectors.

Partnerships and stakeholder management

• Identify collaboration opportunities within the existing partner network and develop new partnerships relevant to Kenya’s context.

• Manage relationships with senior stakeholders, including educational institutions, mandated public offices, government ministries, private sector actors, and youth-led organizations.

• Coordinate internal and external meetings involving country program partners on workforce development priorities.